Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-10-05
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Fire destroyed the a. J. Sawyer d-
svator At Wheatland, Oak. The fire start,
Cd in tho coupola at 1890, and one hour
later the bull ling fell in. Thirty Thousand
Pacific depot and the Presbyterian; church
and parsonage all had close calls, and were
only saved by the heroic efforts Of tho
bucket brigade. There was little or no
wind at the time. This alone saved tho
not known. J. NJ. Defiance, Sawyer's agent,
received quite q severe burn on the arm.
At Arlington, Mimi, w. M. Fuerst-
now, aged rs, was found hanging by the
neck to the rafters of his room, suspended
by two thicknesses of binding twine. The
body, when found, vas cold. The rope
having stretched: ne was standing fat
feet from the Irvine, from which he must
have swung himself of gently to avoid
breaking it. The moose used was formed
by Irvine passing through an old buckle.
1t is reported from Fort Assinaboine,
Mont, that Privates William Cosgrove and
James Burke, Of Company B., Twentieth
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Grass Hills since last Spring, became
involved in a quarrel, which resulted in
burke being hit on the head with q stone in
the hands of Cosgrove and being seriously
wounded. His skull was fractured and
brain lacerated. 1t is said that Burke can
not recover.
Sergt. Ralph Teeple, of Company
K, 5th., Unfit, U. Is. A., Fort Lotten, Oak,
committed suicide at a West 9TH street
hotel, st. Paul, Mimi, by cutting an ar
terry in his arm and bleeding to death. He
had been in st; Paul, on furlong about
twenty days, and passed his time with wine
and women, until in a half crazed period of
dependency he ended his life. He was
young unmarried and a good soldier.
Jas. H. Scott, a Scandinavian laborer
of st. Paul, Mimi, with a wife and three
children. was fatally shot in the groin, by
showing a self-acting revolver he had pur
chased. In Olson's untutored hand the gun
went off giving Scott a mortal wound.
The dying man made q statement under
oath that the shooting was purely acct
dental.
A 17-year old boy, son of John
Erchler, dropped dead while husking corn
in a field 10 miles from Waterloo, Iowa.
He had never been sick a day in his life,
and was thought to be in perfectly good
health: He ate 4 hearty dinner and re-
turned to his work with two other men,
and after having worked an hour he fell
backward and expired immediately.
Thomas Hoff, of New Richmond,
Wis. returning home in an intoxicated
condition at a late hour, was struck BY a
passing train on the Wisconsin Contra
road and terribly mangled. Flesh, blood
and brains were scattered for several rods
along the track, one foot and hand being
completely severed from the bedy.
The Matt Clark Transportation com
pany of Saltwater, Mimi, and Mr.. Clark
individually, made an assignment to Capt
Vim G.. Bronson: liabilities are stated at
$500 0, assets $4,000. The company own
seven towing barges, but some of them are
mortgaged, one to j. K. Graves for sl5,o0o.
At Grand Forks, OAK. Harry the f.
year-old son of Geo. Cruikshanks, was a.
cidently killed. Collins & Murphy were re-
moving their machinery from the fair with
a traction engine. The boy had his hands
on the pan leaning on it when the smoke
stack fell on him, killing him instantly.
John Kelly, who attempted to rape
the s~even-year-old daughter of A.. F.
Wright, at Cumberland, Wis, June IS, 1887,
has been sentenced to the state prison at
Waupun for a term of eight years, the last
day of each year to be passed in solitude.
The full penalty fixed by law is ten years
At Duluth. Mimi. a young son Of
Mr.. Brandt, the brewer, lit a short train 10
a key containing a quantity of powder found
by him and may lose his eye sight as the
result. He was severely burned on his
hands and breast
The largest transfer of real estate
ever made in Coddington Co., Oak, was
the sale by w. R. Thomas to the Water
town Ian Improvement Company of the
Spicer quarter, lying north of the city. The
deed was fled.
Senator Sabin delivered the annual
address at the Five county fair at St. Cloud,
Mimi, to an audience of 5000 people whs
indicated extreme pleasure at the remarks
made by their distinguished fellow citizen.
While out hunting ducks Peter Red
elhofer. of Potosi, Iowa, pulled his gun
through a barbed wire fence. It went of,
the charge lodging in his abdomen, with
fatal results.
At Grand Forks, Oak, George
Hansell had an arm torn off by a threshing
engine while adjusting a pump.